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‘The Arrogant Ape’: Reimagining Humanity’s Place In The Natural World
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (696+ words) (REVIEW) In 2008, Ecuador became the world’s first nation to grant legal status to the natural world. Mother Earth, or Pachamama, as the Indigenous Andeans refer to the planet, has “the right to exist and maintain vital cycles, functions and evolutionary…...
Political Identity Drove Americans Away From Christianity — And Why It’s No Longer True
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (386+ words) (ANALYSIS) There’s an old saying that bounces around from time to time: “Change is hard. Not changing is harder.” It’s often invoked by counselors helping clients alter their behavior, particularly regarding substance abuse. But outside that specific context, the opposite…...
Myths Aren’t Lies: Why The Bible’s Power Lives In Metaphor, Not Literalism
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (660+ words) Religion Unplugged believes in a diversity of well-reasoned and well-researched opinions. This piece reflects the views of the author and does not necessarily represent those of Religion Unplugged, its staff and contributors. (OPINION) Recently, as a guest preacher, I explored…...
America At 250: Native Peoples, Christianity And Empire In Colonial America
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1521+ words) Treaties made and broken. An intricate and unstable web of alliances, sometimes with the Crown, sometimes with the colonists, often between tribes (there were more than eighty east of the Mississippi at the time of the American Revolution). Promises made,…...
Most Of Us Are Agnostics. Even Preachers.
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1218+ words) Religion Unplugged believes in a diversity of well-reasoned and well-researched opinions. This piece reflects the views of the author and does not necessarily represent those of Religion Unplugged, its staff and contributors. (OPINION) Across my many years of writing columns…...
The Orthodox Book Lover Whose Store Affected Believers
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (676+ words) (ANALYSIS) Theologians will travel far and wide searching for the perfect book, but few would think to shop near the Flint Hills of Eastern Kansas. Metropolitan Saba Esper, leader of the Antiochian Orthodox archdiocese of North America, was searching for…...
Cincinnati, Where Vance converted, Gives A Glimpse Of Catholicism’s History In America’s Heartland
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (1038+ words) (ANALYSIS) Ten years after “Hillbilly Elegy” catapulted its author into public view, JD Vance is publishing a new memoir, “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.” The vice president explains the book as a sort of self-help guide for the…...
African Americans And Faith: It Goes Way Beyond The Black Church
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (182+ words) According to the Pew Research Center, nearly 75% of Black Americans identify as Christian. It’s well known that many of the first African Americans were first exposed to Christianity during slavery. This exposure could have been used as a tactic for…...
G.K. Chesterton Made Christianity Actually Cool
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (374+ words) (ANALYSIS) Born in May 1874, G.K. Chesterton was physically enormous and intellectually volcanic. He arrived large in every measurable sense, and immediately set about doing something most theologians consider professionally irresponsible. He made Christianity cool. READ: Meet The Man Who Forever Rewired…...
What Do The Nonreligious Really Think About Religion?
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (335+ words) (ANALYSIS) For the uninitiated, let me pull back the curtain just a little bit. I am basically doing as much as I can with very little survey data. Most datasets that exist just weren’t really designed to be focusing entirely…...